Welcome back to Healthier with Elizabeth! Today marks the beginning of a mini-series on the Vintage Health crystal essences. Over the next five episodes, we're going to cover what crystal essences are, where they come from, when you might take them, how you use them, and why I'm so drawn to them for my clients. Let's dive into the basics.
What Are Crystal Essences?
In a nutshell, crystal essences are drops or sprays where the energy of specific crystals is captured in liquid form. We're either applying the crystal essence to our energy field—with the sprays, you're spraying them down your body or using them as a room spray—or with the drops, you're putting them in your water and then drinking it.
These are creating emotional shifts. They're addressing fixed ways of being. They can help you with certain issues like stress and they just really create a fresh perspective. I very much work in a realm where if someone's coming to me with a physical complaint, sometimes it's a quick fix—let's correct you, get your nutrition on track, look at you from a Chinese medicine perspective, apply the naturopathic principles, and get you balanced.
But sometimes what's actually underneath is an emotional programme, a fixed way of being, a subconscious decision that was made a long time ago that's still running the show, and we want to address that. This is where the crystal essences come in because they're really working on the psychological and emotional, and for some people, spiritual terrain.
Where Do They Come From?
The line that I work with—I've made them. I have each of the crystals. Here's, for example, a piece of apophyllite. It's a beautiful crystal for anyone that's really trying to create space in their world for healing and healing for others. I actually have a lot of apophyllite around because I keep it in the therapy room so it can come into play when I'm working with my clients.
You have the crystal and then from there I'm making the essence. I use an indirect method. That means that the resulting crystal essence liquid has not actually come in contact with the crystal. I do that for safety reasons. Most crystals are fine, but there are some that are toxic or some that are mined out of the ground alongside other minerals that are toxic. So, just to be 100% sure that there is nothing in the essence that's going to be damaging to your health, I use an indirect method.
Once I've got the crystal essence, I have stock bottles. In my collection, I have apophyllite sitting there, amethyst sitting there—I have about 250 different essences at this point. And then from there, with the stock bottles, we can make up blends.
There are two options within Vintage Health. The one I'm going to speak to mostly today and in this series are the pre-made blends where I've put together seven or eight different essences. They cover a specific condition that I've noticed within my clients is constantly coming up. We'll speak to those in a few episodes' time.
But you can also make personalised essences and that's actually where I started out. Right now that's a service—you come and see me and we will come up with a personalised essence for you, then you're taking those drops in your water for 4 to 6 weeks. I'm actually hoping that come 2026 I'll be able to release that service to the wider population and you'll be able to do it online. More about that later, but anyway, that gives you an idea.
They're blends and they have the specific properties of each of the crystals in there, and then you're taking your drops or you're spraying them on you.
How You Use Them
This is an example of one of the ones that's available. This is the one I'm on today—Holding Space, which is a beautiful essence for just trying to create pauses when you've got things that you're trying to unpack, but you just want to be able to honour the process of sifting through your emotions or sifting through your reactions and really just getting clear on what it is you want for yourself.
Also, Holding Space is really nice to create space if you work with others and they're taking themselves on and they're dealing with things and you don't want to come from a reactive place. So, anyway, for whatever reason in my world at the moment, Holding Space is the one that I was called to today.
It's a dropper bottle. You're just going to shake a few drops into your water. Now, you can put it in a water bottle, you can put it in a jug, you can do whatever you like. But the main thing with vibrational medicine—because that's what this type of therapy is, crystal essences, flower essences, etc., that's the category you'd put them under—the main thing about them is that it's not about how much you put in your container of water. It's how often you sip on that throughout the day or how much contact you have.
So, it doesn't really follow the laws of dose dependency that we're really familiar with. You know, you take more, you get more of an effect. This one is about the more contact you have with it, the more doses you're getting and so the greater the effect. If I chug that whole glass in one go, that's considered one dose. But if I'm taking sips throughout the day, and I might come back to this 10 times before it's gone, that's considered 10 doses.
What's nice about this therapy is that it doesn't interact with anything. It doesn't interact with any medications. I haven't experienced it where it's gone overboard. Your body takes what it needs and then forgets the rest. But if you're really keen to try it on, get it into your system, then yeah, sip on it throughout the day and you'll get more effects.
Using the Spray
And then with a spray—the Grounding and Protection Spray is the current one available in the Vintage Health range. There are a number of ways you can use it, but this one you're not taking internally. You're making sure that the crystal essence is being sprayed either in your energy field or in a room that you're trying to clear.
If I want to ground and protect, this one's really great for shifting gears in the moment. You know, if I've gone from a situation where I'm a bit triggered and then I need to sit down with someone and give them my full attention, I will clear myself between incidences so I'm ready, I'm grounded, and I can do what I need to do. So yeah, that's a situation where it would be in my energy field.
I might also—if you're not watching but you're just listening—I'm sitting in the Vintage Health studio, so it's also a therapy room. If I've had a very heavy case or there are just lingering emotions, we've had to deal with a lot of stuff and I need to clear the space, I will spray this around the room. I might spray it over the massage table before I have my next client. So yeah, that's how you would use the sprays.
Now, they are odourless, the sprays, but you're very welcome to go and put essential oils or something in it. And to be honest, I have one in my toilet because we all need grounding and protection sometimes from whatever our bodies are expelling. But I have an essential oil in there and that just doubles as a room spray, but also helps to clear the energy after different family members have used the bathroom. So yeah, that's essentially how you use crystal essences.
When Might You Take Them?
When might you take them? Well, for anyone that's really wanting to optimise their health by taking on anything that's stuck in their emotional terrain. They might have noticed things like they're always triggered by the same kind of person, and they've started to notice patterns. They feel like they're in these cycles where something's running in the background and that's in control of you and your reactions and your emotions and how you feel about things, as opposed to you being in control of how you want to react.
Sometimes people want a fresh perspective on an issue. Sometimes people are looking for balance because they're exhausted and overwhelmed and they know something's got to change, but they just don't know where to start. You'll actually get more of an idea when you listen to the episodes about the different essences and what they address in the Vintage Health range because I really have designed those to take on recurring issues that I was noticing in my clients, in my family and friends, and just observing what's going on in the global sphere.
So anyway, do stay tuned for those because if you're still not quite sure when you might take these or who these are for, go and listen to those and I'm hoping that will become crystal clear—sorry, pardon the pun—as to how they work and who they might be for.
So I think that's it for this episode. I just really wanted to have a basic 101. I've told you what they are, where they come from, when you might take them, and how you might use them or who they might be for. I've covered everything for now. But if I've missed anything, please let me know.
The next episode though, I'm actually going to jump into and devote entirely to the why because I really want to illustrate why I was attracted to this therapy for my clients. I want to give you a few examples. And I'm at a place right now where I feel that if you're not addressing what's going on in the emotional psychological realm, then you're doing yourself a disservice if you're trying to take on your health and wellness. That will make a lot more sense in part two. But anyway, join me and I will speak to you soon. Bye.